The Gallery of Eli the Bearded

First a word about these files. These were all (save the one noted exception) scanned in from original prints of mine. They were all digitized using a rather old gray scale flatbed scanner. This means that for most of them the colors are much reduced from the originals. Sorry. I am not overly concerned, however, because while color is frequent in my work, I don't generally employ a lot of meaning to the particular colors used. Rather I will pick a light color or a dark color or a middling color, etc.

Each of these files is a gif or a jpeg based only on which produced a smaller file. (I used Photoshop's default jpeg compression level.) All of the images are full size when viewed at 100 dpi. Some of them suffer from jpeg artifacting, sorry. Most will look really dark if you have a lousy gamma setting on your monitor, or no gamma control at all.

Edition sizes are given for all images which I can no longer make additional copies.

Face (JPEG) (68k)

This is one of my favorites. It is a woman's face printed in two colors, pink for most of it and red for the eyes and lips, on a cream off-white paper. Of all the images here, this is the one I would most like to show in color. This face came from a photograph in the New York Times Magazine.

This was printed using a single linoleum block, carved for one color and then reworked for the next color. (Ie a reduction print.) Edition of nine.

Female Form (JPEG) (33k)

A highly sylized picture of a woman. This image is based on a postscript image I designed several years ago.

Linoleum block print.

Sho and Mit (JPEG) (184k)

My two youngest cousins in their backyard. Mitchiko is standing; Sho is sitting on a toy car. From a photograph by my uncle, then retouched in Photoshop.

Six color linoleum reduction print. Edition of nine.

Sunset (JPEG) (84k)

A very simple sunset.

Monoprint. (Ink applied to plexiglass and then transfered to paper in an etching press. So called because it is a printing process necessarily limited to one print.)

The Lovers (JPEG) (59k)

Silhouette of a pair of lovers among plants. Inspired by a Tarot card. (Some day I want to design and make my own deck.)

Linoleum block print.

The Rains (JPEG) (93k)

Or alternatively, The Third Day of Creation. Falling water (color makes it easier to see this).

Acid etched zinc plate, printed as a regular etching.

The Sun (JPEG) (126k)

A house on a plain, the Sun overhead. Inspired by a Tarot card.

Monoprint. (Water soluble crayon on plexiglass, pressed on to damp paper.)

forms (JPEG) (169k)

I see many things in this image. I really liked the plate, but my skill at printing etchings is not such that I get what I saw to transfer to the paper very well.

Acid etched zinc plate, printed as a regular etching.

geometry (JPEG) (88k)

Various precise geometric shapes produced in a deliberately rough manner.

Monoprint. (Ink on plexiglass.)

papercut (GIF) (15k)

A simplification of an image I found on a textbook. This is not a scan of an original, but reconstructed in Photoshop from the original stencil.

Silk screen from papercut stencil.